Community Water System · PWSID NY3530201

Queen of Apostles

Serves 45 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMonroe, New York
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On record since 2008: 28 violations. 3 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 16 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

3Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
16Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 86% of active water systems in New York. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052008 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Treatment lapse: 1201020152017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 22017 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Notice or report: 22020 · Notice or report: 220202022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Over the limit: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% over the limit · 34% treatment lapse · 157% missed or late test · 1629% notice or report · 8

Across New York, 67% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+28062023-04-01 · 2806: measured 11.00 NG/L vs limit 10.00 NG/L (1.1×)2023-01-01 · 2806: measured 11.00 NG/L vs limit 10.00 NG/L (1.1×)2022-10-01 · 2806: measured 12.00 NG/L vs limit 10.00 NG/L (1.2×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.4 ppb
1 ppb
1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-04-011,4-DioxaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-012806Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-012805Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-01-011,4-DioxaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2023-06-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2023-04-012806MCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 NG/L · limit 10.00 NG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-01-012806MCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 NG/L · limit 10.00 NG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-10-012806MCL, Averagemeasured 12.00 NG/L · limit 10.00 NG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-07-012806Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-07-012805Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2022-07-011,4-DioxaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2020-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2020-09-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2020-05-01Unknown contaminantRecord KeepingBack in compliance
  20. 2020-01-01OrthophosphateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2019-01-01SodiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2017-08-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  25. 2017-07-01OrthophosphateWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2017-07-01Unknown contaminantOperations ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2010-03-14Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  3. 2008-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served45
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMonroe
EPA ZIP on file10950

Areas served

  • Orange County

Reading this record

Queen of Apostles is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 45 people in Monroe, New York. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.